StartFast’s leadership team has the deep entrepreneurial experience and track record of success necessary to build a world class acceleration program. Our entrepreneur networks and credibility with angel and venture investors ensure that StartFast teams have access to top level customers, partners, and capital providers.
Chuck Stormon
Managing Director
@chuck_stormon
Chuck is a serial entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in starting and growing successful venture backed companies in the fields of chip design, mapping software, networking, and broadband video services. He is an active angel investor and member of the Seed Capital Fund of CNY. The companies Chuck led have had acquisition exits totaling more than $100MM. More…
Nasir Ali
Managing Director
@uvconnect
Nasir is a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor. He moved to Syracuse in 2004 to help build Upstate New York’s entrepreneurial ecosystem first through The Tech Garden and since 2010 as co-founder and CEO of Upstate Venture Connect. Nasir is also the founder and executive director of the Seed Capital Fund of CNY and manages SCF’s investment portfolio. More…
Kyle Blumin
Entrepreneur in Residence
@KyleBlumin
Kyle is a serial entrepreneur with an established record of success as an entrepreneur, investor, operator and mentor. Three successful exits, experiences in turn-arounds, angel-funded start-ups, mergers & acquisitions as well as principal investment have given Kyle a unique skill set for working with early stage startup companies and guiding them all the way to a profitable exit. More…
Jeremy Schwimmer
Entrepreneur in Residence
@jschwimmer
Jeremy Schwimmer has lived and worked in New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, but currently resides in Central New York. After starting his career in corporate finance, Jeremy has since established a record of success as an entrepreneur (with multiple exits), angel investor and mentor to both start-ups and mature companies. More…
Martin Babinec
Co-Founder and Mentor
@MartinBabinec
Martin founded and led TriNet HR Corporation for over two decades, building it into the premier nationwide provider of human resource solutions for venture backed companies. Martin is also an active angel investor and a founding investor with the Eastern New York Angel Fund. He is currently the founder and chairman of Upstate Venture Connect, a non-profit organization dedicated to building high-growth, private capital backed businesses in Upstate New York. More…
